The Nightcreature Novels Series

Beneath a hunter's moon blood turns from crimson to black . . .   Once upon a time they called me Ms. Tyler, Leigh to my friends. I was a kindergarten teacher who dreamed of love, children and that cliché picket fence.  Then my worst mistake came back and brutally took away everything I ever loved.   Mistakes . . . they can haunt you. Until you make them stop.   I became a hunter, a Jager-Sucher. Specialty: Werewolves.  Just because my starry-eyed dreams might be dead, that doesn't mean everyone else's has to be. But there's a bigger, badder beast in town and it's doing my work for me.   Distractions can be deadly and Damien Fitzgerald, a drifter with a questionable past is the ultimate distraction. When I gave up love, I gave up sex.  Damien makes me wonder if maybe, just maybe, that was a mistake.  However, people who hang around me too long wind up dead, and I can't live with any more souls on my conscience.   In the end, the only way to save anyone, including myself, is to come face-to-face with my past. But am I strong enough to triumph over an evil no one else has ever vanquished before?

Winner of the RITA® Award for Best Paranormal Romance!   When darkness falls, another world comes alive . . .   The summer I discovered the world was not black-and-white but a host of annoying shades of gray was the summer a lot more changed than my vision.   Call me Jessie, or better yet, Officer McQuade. On the night the truth began, our usually shy wolf population near my hometown of Miniwa, Wisconsin attacked. At the scene of the first crime, I found a wolf totem, which lead me to Professor Will Cadotte, an expert in Native American mythology, particularly of his tribe the Ojibwe.   From day one, he annoyed me. Tall, dark and gorgeous, he's also funny, smart and nearly as sarcastic as I am. I felt things when I looked at him.  I wanted to keep feeling them longer than was healthy for a woman like me.  I know what I am. Better off alone.   Nevertheless, we began to work together in an attempt to determine what was rotten in Miniwa. We were getting nowhere until the arrival of Edward Mandenauer, a self-proclaimed werewolf hunter.   Sure, I laughed and then one of our dead bodies walked out of the morgue. After that . . . things got really strange.   Now a rare Blue Moon approaches, making me wonder: Who can I trust when the moon is full?  

As the moon goes dark, secrets come to light . . . The bronze nameplate on my desk reads Dr. Elise Hanover-Virologist. I've made it my mission to cure lycanthropy. My life depends on it.  I am a werewolf too. I've been holed up in a secret Montana compound for . . . what year is it?  Let's just say it's been a while. But when the compound blows sky high and the biggest, baddest, craziest werewolf of all escapes, I'm thrown together with FBI agent, Nic Franklin.  Unfortunately, he's the man whose heart I broke once upon a time, and he hasn't forgotten, or forgiven, me yet. My boss, Edward Mandenauer, is just waiting for a reason to put a silver bullet in my brain and the way things are going, downhill at epic speed, he may have found the perfect excuse. The worst part? I love Nic again, or maybe I love him still, and a weakness like that is certain to get both of us killed.

Will he kiss me, or will he kill me?   Cryptozoology, the study of and search for legendary creatures, is my life's work. I've chased things no one has ever heard of.  For over a century there have been whispers of a werewolf in the Crescent City. When bodies begin to pile up in Louisiana's Honey Island Swamp, it's me, Diana Malone to the rescue.   Unfortunately, my first swamp guide winds up dead.  When sexy, reclusive former Special Forces officer Adam Ruelle offers his services, I accept, though local Cajun legends label the Ruelles cursed, deranged, even mad. But that doesn't stop me from sleeping with him.  I've been called less than sane myself.   By night, Adam is everything I ever dreamed of in a lover. But when the sun rises, so do the questions.  What is he hiding?

Everything was all right until that photograph showed up in my mailbox. No, that isn't true. Nothing has been all right since my sister vanished into thin air. The sign outside my office reads, Anne Lockhart-Private Investigator, but most of my time is spent trying to find Katie. The photo leads me to Rising Moon, a New Orleans jazz club where my sister was last seen.   The club's chief attraction is John Rodolfo, an incredibly sexy, brilliant and blind saxophone player. He has secrets—more than most. Katie is not the first person to disappear from Rising Moon, and she won't be the last.  As I unravel the mystery, John's involvement becomes frighteningly clear. Voodoo altars, roaving wolves and touches of black magic create more questions than answers.  With Mardi Gras approaching the city is wild, on edge, dangerous.  But so is John Rodolfo. Will I be able to find my sister before I lose my both heart and my life?

Death is not the end . . . I hope.   A corrupt, lying, dangerous husband landed me in witness protection. They gave me a new identity and insisted I change my life. I am now Priestess Cassandra; I own a voodoo shop in New Orleans. When I change lives, I do it right. When the Jager-Suchers, an elite monster-hunting force, asks me to travel to Haiti and find an evil, zombie-raising, magical voodoo sorcerer I agree. What kind of priestess would I be if I said no to the discovery of magic? And if there are rumors of an ancient, shapeshifting clan of black panthers, fine by me.  Bring 'em on.   But I need a guide and the best one on the island, the only one that knows how to reach the lair of the sorcerer, is Devon Murphy. Both thief and fortune hunter, Devon has secrets of his own.  During the journey in and out of magical realms, from New Orleans to Haiti and back again, I discover a lot about myself, a lot about Devon and even more about magic, life after death and how far I'm willing to go to get what I want, to do what I must do, what I've planned to do all along. Raise my daughter from the dead.

Forbidden love? Simply irresistible . . .   Lake Bluff, Georgia, in the heart of the Blue Ridge Mountains, was once my home.  But when the bright lights of Atlanta beckoned, Claire Kennedy had to answer. I'd dreamed of working in a newsroom, like my mother, for far too long. My father's sudden death brings me back. Definitely older, I thought I was a lot wiser. So how did I ended up finishing out my father's term as mayor? A band of Gypsies arrives to entertain at our Full Moon Festival, driving wagons as old and colorful as their ancestors, filled with animals both exotic and dangerous. They appear to have walked out of a bygone century. Their leader, Malachi Cartwright is not only attractive but secretive and mysterious. When my last relationship ended in a cruel betrayal, I swore off men forever. But this one may change my mind.   Then all hell breaks loose. Wolf howls are heard in mountains that have been wolf-free for a century.  A tourist is mauled, then disappears. Magical runes marked with Nazi symbols are found at the scenes of further attacks. As an eclipse approaches, enemies are everywhere.   Is Malachi one of them?

In the first century, he lived for vengeance During the second, he hungered for blood By the third, he yearned for destruction But eventually . . . All he craved was the moon   Gina O'Neil will do anything to keep from losing the family ranch, except allow archeologist, Mateo Mecate, to dig there.  Some secrets need to stay buried. Matt believes an ancient Aztec tomb lies beneath Nahua Springs Ranch. As finding it will restore his standing in the archeological community, he travels to Colorado to make his case in person. Gina plans to say no to the moldy, ancient academic, but Matt isn't ancient, and he convinces Gina to agree.   Then they awaken something unspeakably evil―a centuries old werewolf with vengeance on its mind. A sorcerer of incredible power.   Who will survive the battle to come?

Winner of the Prism Award for Best Paranormal Novella   Adventure novelist Maya Alexander's peace ends when she is stalked by a Navajo skin walker in the guide of a wolf. Luckily mysterious soldier of fortune Clay Phillips arrives to protect her.  But no one is safe from the danger that lurks close by.

A storm beneath the Thunder Moon is both rare and powerful. My Cherokee great-grandmother believed that on this night magic happens. She neglected to mention that magic can kill.   After a freak thunderstorm, the elderly residents of Lake Bluff, Georgia begin to die. All eyes turn to the sheriff, to me, Grace McDaniel to find out why. Ian Walker, a Cherokee doctor who blends native and traditional medicine, arrives with the Thunder Moon.  Ian hides both powerful medicine and a painful past.  Despite my mistrust of strangers, of secrecy, of magic I want to trust him.   As the creature preying on the town's residents gains strength and begins to kill not just the old but the young and healthy as well, Ian and I join together in a race to find the Cherokee legend become fact, the Raven Mocker.   Can we stop this supernatural monster before it kills again?

Legends never die . . .   When her cable television show, Hoax Hunters, is canceled, Kristin Daniels is determined to turn things around.  Wouldn't debunking the biggest myth of them all be just the thing to get her TV show back on the air? With that in mind, Kris sets off for Scotland to take on Nessie.    On the shores of Loch Ness she meets mysterious and sexy Liam Grant, a caretaker of the loch. Their attraction is instantaneous. Then women start dying and it's looking like Nessie, benign for so long, might be changing her ways. As Kris, with the help of Liam, investigates both the killer and the monster, ancient mysteries come to light. It isn't long before the professional skeptic begins to suspect that this time the hoax is actually the truth. But as the killer sets his sights on Kris, she wonders: Will she take that secret to the grave?

In the RITA® nominated Marked by the Moon, Alaska has never been so dangerous.   Alexandra Trevalyn was once a member of an elite force of werewolf hunters, but these days she's going rogue, determined to rid the world of the crazed killers, specifically the one that killed her parents.   Once a Viking, now a werewolf, Julian Barlow has been hunting Alex since she killed his gentle wife. His plans of vengeance are downright devious.  To make Alex understand, up close and personal, that not all werewolves are evil, killing machines, he makes Alex a werewolf too.   It's only a matter of time before she succumbs to the freedom of the wolf that runs through her veins, if she doesn't succumb to the temptation of Julian first.  At his magical village above the Arctic Circle a rogue werewolf kills the innocent. Can Julian and Alex work together to save the rest of the pack? Or will they just tear each other apart?    

A Nightcreature prequel short story featuring Edward Mandenauer   France, 1944 and the Nazis are up to no good in the Black Forest. The leaders of the resistance have sent me, Renee, to find out what they are concocting in an isolated castle.  On the way, I am captured by Gestapo Major Edward Mandenauer.  But Edward is not what he seems. Together we infiltrate the castle and discover the beginnings of a werewolf army.   Can we stop it? Will we be able to escape . . . together?

A Nightcreature short story featuring Jessie McQuade and Will Cadotte from the RITA Award winning BLUE MOON   When Will and I are sent to a small Wisconsin town to investigate a sudden rash of violent insanity, we encounter a mad scientist who has invented a new kind of werewolf . . .   One that silver can't kill.

When FBI agent, Dana Duran, is sent to Devil's Fork Louisiana little does she know that the serial killer she is hunting is supernatural. Her main suspect is the local voodoo king, Julian Portier. How could she know that voodoo would be so viciously sexy?

After dark, everything changes . . .   Step into the world of the Nightcreaure Novels.  You may never step back out. (This collection contains Books 1-3)   Blue Moon   When darkness falls, another world comes alive . . .   The summer I discovered the world was not black-and-white but a host of annoying shades of gray was the summer a lot more changed than my vision.   Call me Jessie, or better yet Officer McQuade. On the night the truth began, our usually shy wolf population near my hometown of Miniwa, Wisconsin attacked. Circumstances led me to Professor Will Cadotte, an expert in Native American mythology, particularly of the Ojibwe.   Tall, dark and gorgeous, he was also funny, smart and nearly as sarcastic as I am. I felt things when I looked at him.  I wanted to keep feeling them longer than was healthy for a woman like me.  I know what I am. Better off alone.   We were getting nowhere until the arrival of Edward Mandenauer, a self-proclaimed werewolf hunter.   Sure, I laughed. Then one of our dead bodies walked out of the morgue.   After that . . . things got really strange.     Hunter's Moon   Beneath a hunter's moon blood turns from crimson to black . . .   Once upon a time they called me Ms. Tyler, Leigh to my friends, a kindergarten teacher who dreamed of love, children and that cliché picket fence.  Then my worst mistake came back and brutally took away everything I ever loved.   Mistakes . . . they can haunt you. Until you make them stop. So I became a hunter, a Jager-Sucher. Specialty: Werewolves.    Distractions can be deadly and Damien Fitzgerald, a drifter with a questionable past is the ultimate distraction. When I gave up love, I gave up sex.  Damien makes me wonder if maybe, just maybe, that was a mistake.  However, people who hang around me too long wind up dead, and I can't live with any more souls on my conscience.   Dark Moon   As the moon goes dark, secrets come to light . . .   The bronze nameplate on my desk reads Dr. Elise Hanover-Virologist. I've made it my mission to cure lycanthropy. My life depends on it.  I am a werewolf too. I've been holed up in a secret Montana compound for . . . what year is it?  Let's just say it's been a while.    But when the compound blows sky high and the biggest, baddest, craziest werewolf of all escapes, I'm thrown together with FBI agent, Nic Franklin.  Unfortunately, he's the man whose heart I broke once upon a time, and he hasn't forgotten, or forgiven, me yet.   My boss, Edward Mandenauer, is just waiting for a reason to put a silver bullet in my brain and the way things are going, downhill at epic speed, he may have found the perfect excuse.   The worst part? I love Nic again, or maybe I love him still, and a weakness like that is certain to get both of us killed.    

Dive into a world where magic and mysticism collide, and where love may be the most powerful force of all   When a mysterious love charm is discovered in the ceremonial Ojibwe garments of Will Cadotte on the eve of his wedding to Jessie McQuade, the two embark on a soul-stirring spirit journey to uncover the truth.   Will their love endure the trials of their dangerous world, or will unseen forces tear them apart?

When Manhattanite Carly Kelly finds herself thrust into the icy embrace of the Alaskan wilderness, she seeks refuge in the arms of Dylan Shepard, a rugged soldier haunted by his own secrets. As the moon rises above an icy landscape, Carly and Dylan race against time to find her mother and escape the clutches of relentless werewolves. As the line between friend and foe blurs Carly wonders: can a love forged by fear and desperation last?